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August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 133 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
August 20. Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory. 1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola came to an end with the British and Creek abandoning their attempt to capture Pensacola in Spanish Florida. 1910 – Hurricane-force winds combined hundreds of small fires in the U.S. states of Washington and Idaho into the Devil's Broom fire, which burned about ...
August 10, 1920: Release of Mamie Smith's record "Crazy Blues" opens the "Jazz Age" August 26, 1920: National Women's Party leader Alice Paul marks proclamation of the 19th Amendment August 20, 1920: 8MK, the first U.S. radio station, goes on the air August 15, 1920: Poland's Army turns back the Soviet Russian invasion
August 7: Assyrian Martyrs Day ( 1933 ) Badge of Military Merit. 1461 – Ming Chinese general Cao Qin staged a failed coup against the Tianshun Emperor. 1782 – The Badge of Military Merit (pictured), the precursor to the U.S. Purple Heart, was established as a military decoration of the Continental Army.
2020 – Minneapolis false rumors riot, August 26–28, On August 26, a false rumor that police shot a man in Minneapolis started riots that set four buildings on fire and damaged 72 others. 2020 – Jewish Protest, October 7–8, In Brooklyn, New York, members of the Orthodox Jewish community protested over new COVID-19 restrictions.
January 2 – First Red Scare: The second of the Palmer Raids takes place with another 4,025 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial in several cities. January 5 – 1920 United States Census count begins. This becomes the first census to record a population exceeding 100 million, at 106,021,537.
August 20, 1944 (Sunday) Soviet forces in Romania began the Jassy–Kishinev Offensive. Philippe Pétain was arrested by the Germans and taken to Belfort because he refused to leave Vichy. The Battle of Toulon began. German submarine U-188 was scuttled in Bordeaux to prevent capture by the Allies, one of five U-boats lost that day.
August 22, 1922 (Tuesday) Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of Ireland's National Army, was shot dead in an ambush at Béal na Bláth (Anglicized as "Bealnablath"). [87] Collins had set out at dawn, accompanied by 20 Irish National Army guards, for an inspection tour of various posts in County Cork.